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scottzhao · 09-18-2014, 10:41 AM

My Kindle Touch got bricked a few days ago due to low battery. After I charged whole day, it could boot up, looked OK, but book list was empty. Then I found WIFI not work, device info show "MAC unavailable". I reset and rebooted several times, no use, WIFI still dead. It was strange, when I connected to PC, I could see all books in documents folder, but Kindle could not list them at all. I formatted USB drive, it looked empty and no errors. After rebooting, everything came back again, all books under documents show again,

Then I tried to flash it with Kubrick 3.6 DVD. At beginning, in fastboot, diags flashed very fast, only took 2-3 seconds. but KT rebooted into main mode instead of diags. I manually rebooted it into diags with KindleSelectBoot on another PC and went back to Kubrick to continue with USBNet enabled. Kubrick recognized KT and went on, until flashing Jailbreak and format internal drive, it popped up "failed". Then I rebooted KT, it could enter main mode, nothing changed, all books were still there and WIFI still not work.

Then I manually do fastboot on PC and flash diag-ssh. fastboot response OK, then I went into daigs, USBnet enabled, I used Putty to ssh 192.168.15.244, it popped "connection refused". I waited long time and tried many times, still no connection.

Then I doubted maybe the whole file system is in Read Only mode, so Diags-ssh was not flashed successfully at all.

I checked old threads and found one met same problem, but no specific solution mentioned.

I don't know what goes wrong with my KT, I debricked several K4 with Kubrick or manually before, all successfully. No similar issue met.

Anyone can help?

does it mean hardware failure , flash chip damaged?

Thanks.

09-18-2014, 10:41 AM	#1
scottzhao Member Posts: 11 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2014 Device: Kindle Touch	Kindle Touch can not flash, seems readonly My Kindle Touch got bricked a few days ago due to low battery. After I charged whole day, it could boot up, looked OK, but book list was empty. Then I found WIFI not work, device info show "MAC unavailable". I reset and rebooted several times, no use, WIFI still dead. It was strange, when I connected to PC, I could see all books in documents folder, but Kindle could not list them at all. I formatted USB drive, it looked empty and no errors. After rebooting, everything came back again, all books under documents show again, Then I tried to flash it with Kubrick 3.6 DVD. At beginning, in fastboot, diags flashed very fast, only took 2-3 seconds. but KT rebooted into main mode instead of diags. I manually rebooted it into diags with KindleSelectBoot on another PC and went back to Kubrick to continue with USBNet enabled. Kubrick recognized KT and went on, until flashing Jailbreak and format internal drive, it popped up "failed". Then I rebooted KT, it could enter main mode, nothing changed, all books were still there and WIFI still not work. Then I manually do fastboot on PC and flash diag-ssh. fastboot response OK, then I went into daigs, USBnet enabled, I used Putty to ssh 192.168.15.244, it popped "connection refused". I waited long time and tried many times, still no connection. Then I doubted maybe the whole file system is in Read Only mode, so Diags-ssh was not flashed successfully at all. I checked old threads and found one met same problem, but no specific solution mentioned. I don't know what goes wrong with my KT, I debricked several K4 with Kubrick or manually before, all successfully. No similar issue met. Anyone can help? does it mean hardware failure , flash chip damaged? Thanks. Last edited by scottzhao; 10-04-2014 at 10:26 PM.